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Originally Posted by JAcheson
In the end, though, the Kindles beat the Nook fairly soundly. I'm guessing that Amazon's reputation and ecosystem and marketing was what put them over. That and the fact that the Nooks that followed the Nook Color were fairly underwhelming hardware-wise.
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Amazon launched the appstore first, got it established, and then launched the hardware. When Fire came out it already had far more available apps than the Nook appstore ever mustered and a lot of Android phone owners were already vested in the Amazon appstore.
Amazon acted like a content vendor, B&N as a hardware vendor.
(And not a terribly competent one.)